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Entries from April 2009

(Journalists crowd in to get a look inside the courtroom. Photo: Praxis)
April 7, 2009
161st session. After 160 sessions, which were sometimes interrupted on account of former president Alberto Fujimori’s health, the sentence was issued for this human rights trial. In this trial, Fujimori has been accused by the Public Prosecutor’s Office as having command [...]

(Alberto Fujimori. Photo: Judicial Power)
April 3, 2009
160th session. Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) continued presenting arguments in his own defense for the second and final day. He only briefly mentioned the kidnappings of journalist Gustavo Gorriti and businessman Samuel Dyer. Fujimori also said that only he is the only former president that has been [...]

(Alberto Fujimori. Photo: Judicial Power)
April 1, 2009
159th session. Alberto Fujimori spoke for an hour and 45 minutes (with a 30 minute recess) about his policies of pacification. Though the Court had requested that he only address the crimes that are subject of this trial — the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres, and the kidnapping [...]